Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] [Wh det] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I first heard the first noise I thought what the bloody hell 's that and I turned the sound down . |
| 2 | At your peril you reject what the stars foretell . |
| 3 | Actually it 's a bit of a unorganised chaos nobody knows what the heck they 're doing ! |
| 4 | Even when a picture is used , it is not complete , it takes the form of an icon which contains what the perceiver considers matters at the time . |
| 5 | You will get the lazy child who copies what the next child is doing and these copiers must be helped to think for themselves . |
| 6 | I must tell the Leader of the House that , if the election is to be on 9 April — everyone is planning for it , buying space to advertise and organising ; one hears it from sources in the advertising business who know what the Opposition and the Government are doing — then , for the good of the House , for heaven 's sake announce the date and let us do business in a sensible fashion during the next six weeks , instead of proceeding in this way and covering up the reality . |
| 7 | He asked me whether I was a country person I asked what the qualifications were he said country born and bred , well I was born in Liverpool spent my childhood and early adolescence in rural Nottinghamshire , moved to Highfields , emigrated to the West Indies and now live in sub rural Blavey so I do n't know whether I qualify as a country person or not , but I 'd like to bet that I 've milked more cows by hand than he has if that 's any qualification . |
| 8 | That 's right , and until he does that , until he does , as it were , grasp the mettle and begin to express his purposes , his procedures , directly to the computer , he will always be at the risk that what gets expressed is not what he quite wanted , just a little bit different , he and he alone , is the person who knows what the company purposes are . |
| 9 | Any theory of sentence production , then , will be a theory which describes what the constructive processes are which , when applied to some thought which a speaker wishes to convey to someone else , result in the formulation and production of an appropriate sentence . |
| 10 | When defining a dynamic variable you describe what the variable can look like in the Type section . |
| 11 | He was the first person in the Soviet Union who realized what the avant-garde meant in terms of world art , as he set about searching for and collecting drawings , pictures , canvases … |
| 12 | Once the teaching unit has reached the stage of a draft computer program which does what the designer intends , together with associated notes which describe what the program offers and its possible uses in the classroom , we need to consider in more detail how to collect essential information as to what actually happens when the unit is used . |
| 13 | In the earlier view a work was regarded as a more or less arbitrarily agglomerated collection of defamiliarizing devices , but now it becomes important to see it as an entity , a structure or a system where it is the system which determines what the function of a given device will be , whether it will be foregrounded or automatized . |
| 14 | That was the first time I discovered what the word ‘ reputation ’ meant . |
| 15 | ‘ Yet at the same time I imagined what the celebrations would be like at Molineux . |